26 September 2017
Rocket Lab to fly Planet and Spire satellites on second test flight
...satellites for Planet and two Lemur-2 satellites from Spire for weather mapping and ship traffic tracking. The ... test flight attempt, we’re incredibly excited about carrying Planet and Spire payloads on Electron. The data these companies gather has an...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
...NASA facility, the world was rapidly changing. Wingo Wong, a Spire engineer, works on satellite assembly at the company’s Glasgow office.... technology and other industries. Both SpaceX’s rockets and Spire CubeSats run on Linux - which is the same ...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... is the “three unit” (3U) Planet Labs’ imaging CubeSat for Earth Observation data products, and more recently Spire, which plans to offer maritime location-based and weather data product services from its own CubeSat...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
...-up such as Planet Labs, Skybox Imaging, Generation Orbit or NewSpace Entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk (Space X), Peter Platzer (Spire) or Craig Clark (Clyde Space) have managed to open up a NewSpace Age. References 1 http://nanoracks.com/category...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... their spacecraft launched The remaining eight US nano-satellites - called Lemur and weighing 4.6 kg each - were from Spire Global, also from San Francisco. Their role is to carry out vessel tracking and weather measurement. The...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... sensing, there has been a huge explosion in company formations. Notable startups include Planet, OmniEarth, Audacy, LeoLabs, Spire, Kepler, OneWeb, Astranis and Analytical Space. These companies are all racing to build infrastructure for what...
